But as the wind dropped 15 minutes into the race and it was abandoned, his disqualification did not count when a new race began just 15 minutes before the final cut-off point of 1600 local time (1400 BST).

Goodison was bidding for Britain's fourth sailing medal of the Games after the golds won by Ainslie in the Finn and Shirley Robertson's Yngling crew, and the silver collected by 470 duo Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield.

That may now come from Chris Draper and Simon Hiscocks, who moved into third position in the 49er class on Sunday.

Starting the day in fourth place overall, the European champions followed an eighth place in race 10 with a second in race 11 of the 16-race series.

They are now six points behind joint leaders Spain and Ukraine, and six clear of Australia in fourth.

Iain Percy - a gold medallist in the Finn four years ago - resumed his campaign in the Star (Keelboat) class with Steve Mitchell on Sunday.

The British duo finished 12th in race three and ninth in race four to drop to eighth place overall, 11 points adrift of the medal positions.

Leigh McMillan and Mark Bulkeley dropped to 15th overall in the Tornado (Multihull) class, after a 17th place in race three and a 12th in race four.

Laura Baldwin completed her campaign in the women's Europe class with a fourth place but finished 23rd out of 25 overall.

The gold went to Norway's Siren Sundby, with Lenka Smidova snatching silver for the Czech Republic and Denmark's Signe Livbjerg winning bronze.